Metallic shingle.



PATENTE/D MAY 29, 1909.

C. FIGHTER. METALLIC SHINGLE. APPLwATIoN FILED MAY 1, 1909 @f .'i TTOILME Y.

' roofs covered' necessitating -obvinting i shingles upon l form wit f Syracuse, in

shingles of creci! The nnrrnn corinne moeren or ernennen,

7 warmere eeinere srnfrnsrnrnnr onnennfb I "M- nn'nf Yoran.

pecioation of Lettere Patent. u Prrwlwl QQ; 31.993.

Hemelse,

nppnnen sin Heya. was. saranno. 258,151.

by inserting the tonrnergln; el

shingles e sheethine c entier-'the butte of the een as shown in 2 ci plete/n snecesu To (1J/Z whom it mcy-concern: 1 Be it knownlthet l, Corman Fromme, o the metallic.

theY1 conntylf Onorjcleg'a, in t e ends ol the wooden shingles State of New York,heve invented new and ,ond row and then pue the metellzlc 'usefulllnprovementsin Metallic Shingles, of sheathing up so' es to cena-1e the Vncengin whichl the following, `teken in connection b2 thereof to pass under the bottom lever with the accompanying drewings, is e fu l, of the first row of the shingles ,.e Aend. the clear, and-exact esclption v' 'flange 'lhv object. 'this inven'tlonfis' to 'rovide layers of seid Shing es, sung;A eonvementinexpenivednre lecnd the drewin s. lnjpleoingthe efncient encens "for experli'tiously' repairing, sively'si'le y side each' of said withwocclenshnvles without lb overlap the side margin or the eccent theremovaly .olf detective? preceding plate the ridge 5 el the shlngle'srorn'the roof enclenpcsngn bretl- 'overlap mg (lle anni lie closely ortlon-'o the-roof to theweet F 'rpon t e su es illnstrete in. making the repairs en el ig'. "Zge' the Glrewi'ngs; Seial ridges Jform rring the grounde yebont the 'burners whichprevent Water lmlldmg vinfcinlent to' the scattering foto the 'Underlying Wooden shingles. The rncM them; end to thet end the tellicpletes w'sncceerl mventien consists the novel construction epriv'ed of the upward y-ext-ending rnergin ometellrceheethi ,eshereinefterrlescribe .bcndrest withthe bottom edges ol anelsummegl up nithea, f' exedclelm. ll'nyes b upon the top mer 'n of the preced ln thenewmpnnyingilrewings, ing row of metallic s eething, so es to eplan v 'ehedtheweterdirectlvontotheediccentiower with mynnprcverlrnctnllic sheath?. course of nre'tellc sheathing. i'lhe vsloping 1s mi jedgerfieWo-'the ortions c of the sheething c holei the trnneveree line/JX'X 'in Fig; l. het n snlicient distnnce l' 'aA and c "represent "thebfmetellic plates from the butts et tine Wooclcn shingles cto forrn en eir-specefimnxef eheethind for the wooden dietely beck-o the flange b to prevent wet-er bottone margin ot from ollowing the inserted margin o; l underlying metallic sheathing sind under the Wooden shingles. The sheathing a' of the first-or `position by the marginal bottoni portions l# thereof engeging which fem the 'tiret 'or' bottom course form with e. deep flange b terminating in en upwardly-dellected ortion b2, to embrace and cover the first or ottoni course ot Wooden shingles e. The bottom margin o' sheathing-plete a of the succeeding courses e downwardlyslopingfportion c, b, which is n'erly or the plete the Wooden shinrnarginel portions Each of the ternxinetin 1n o. flange quite et e right angle to the'plene of the lirst course ere elle e entering b to rest evernst "the 'bnttsol plates ie merle from passing to retained in the under eifle of the proiecting portion of the wooden shingles einev and of suflicrent depth to rest with its bottom succeeding rovi/s thing c is edge on the topor the top mer of the edfastened et the upper ends of seid shingles jacent lower plate. The sloping, 'portion c by neilsn in the rnenner aforesaid. he

' serves to dispose the flange b below .and out o bottomed es of thesheething o; ere estenefl of contact with the butt of thenderlying' to the roof y means of nails odriven through wooden shingle.- the slo ing portions c of snirl elieetliing enel Thetop merginof the metallic sheathingthrongl thebutts of the underlyin wooden plete is meinteinedin the same plane wi shingles candinserted portions ol' e metalthe mein or body portion of the plete. lic sheathing end into the subjecent woo The side margins of each plate are formed shingles e, 4es represente in dottetl lines in with conoavo-convex ridgesald,whichter1n1 Fi 2 of the drawings; nete beneath the top margin end above the et l claim as n n inventlonrs-'f the plete. A sheet for slnnglefl roots consisting oi bottom margin o lln applying the described metallic sheathsheet-rnetal p etes orrnewithA their top mer in to en entire roof covered with Woodengine in the seme plane with the bodies of the plates, the bottom roer iorrneol' wit.

terreinethig in the tdiiar ins of the Sub'afeent plates and l rern'oteli fronfr the butts of the lmdelying' CONRAD FIGHTER 5- shingles; and the side margins of the plates Witnesses:

formed. with concavoconvex overlapping; "Q J. J. LAASS,

ridges terminating beneath the top margin L. H, FULMER.. 

